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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 4, 15th January 2024

This, one could say that starts in many cases was reflected... consolidating and elaborating
as a ‘ritual’, perhaps a sanskar, — of showing and explaining Itself as: When this Namah,
respect to another human being, — as and a Pranam with joined hands and folded
in the form that it is passed on and been palms, takes Akar, shape, it is the Union — a

perpetuated through the generations... maybe decimation, an elevation, a transformation of
mechanically, till it becomes a conscious act. the superficial division, separation, within
And yet, even when conscious it is and and hence, without.
has become, it stays at the intellectual and
moral levels, and as an expression of general Now, I could have Google-searched for the
goodness and goodwill, before it becomes correctness of the construction and thus,
spontaneous, when truly one sees the Divine of the de-construction, so as to get to the
in others — and maybe only when one is construction of the Word, Namaskar. But
conscious of and lives always with the Divine instead, with a childlike petulance and joy,
in oneself. We are told and retold of this, by perhaps, refrained, banking on the memory
all who have so realised. of schooldays’ lessons in and learning of
Sanskrit, of those lessons in word construction
No more is the duality experienced or accorded and de-construction, sandhi and sandhi vichhed.
attention... The tension, that kept alive the So, if grammatically it is incorrect, then, do I
superficial cord of separation, snaps and has apologise or levy the blame on the memory?!
snapped and the snapshot is of the Same One Perhaps, that matters not that much, here…
in the other: no more ‘an other’. It is what it revealed and impressed (even
if and in case there is no validation in the
“... the divine spark is at the centre of each atom dictionary), that matters too... Experiences
(8)...” defy norms, don’t they? That, though,
doesn’t justify or invite a deliberate bashing
Namaskar: What It Is of norms!

Coming back to the point: it is always a search,
it seems, to join again with the umbilical
cord... the pain (conscious or otherwise) of the
severing, severe, in all the parts and planes of
the being, felt not the least by this instrumental
Body of the Divine.

The pangs of labour, for delivering oneself,
as and by the One, for getting delivered by
and as the Union, the ‘Uni-one’, the Universal
One, is so intense...

Namaskar = Namah + Akar. “This is our deepest need to join once more
What now is parted, opposite and twain,
This is how It came, or rather, reflected or Remote in sovereign spheres that never meet

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